With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.
Success is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the obstacles one overcomes in its attainment.
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.
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